Passenger control.



E. LINHARD'T.

PASSENGER CONTROL. AYPLIGATION FILED MAB.17.1909.

922, 170. Patented May 18, 1909.

I INVENTOR arzaZZz'rzfianZZ I I ATTORNEYS EMANUEL LINHARDT, OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

PASSENGER CONTROL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1909.

Application filed March 17, 1909. Serial No. 483,902.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that i, Eamxnnn LIN HARDT, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and improved PassengerControl, of which the following i is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention. relates to railways, and its object is to provide a newand improved passenger control for conveniently and quickly handlingpassengers in the stations of underground and elevated railways, with aview to facilitate the loading and unloading of the cars withoutdiscomfort to the passengers entering or leaving the. cars.

For the purpose mentioned. the passengers leave the car through a doorat one end, while the passengers enter the car through a door at theopposite end, so that the passengers entering the -ar are keptcompletely separate from the passengers l aving the car by the use of apassage formed of railings erected on the station platform.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which thefigure is a perspective view of the improvement as applied.

The edge of the station platform A is close to the cars B, B of a trainstopping at a station at predetermined points, each car having at itsforward end an exit door C and at the rear end an entrance door D, sothat the passengers leaving the car at the station pass through the doorC while the passengers entering the car from the platform A pass throughthe door D.

In order to keep the passengers leaving the car and those that enter thecar completely separate, use is made of a passageway formed of a mainrailing E and a second or outer railing F, the main railing E extendingalong tlie edge of the platform A from a point adjacent to the exit door0, tcrmi nating at one side of the entrance door D, as plainly indicatedin the drawing. The outer railing F erected on the platform A is a shortone and parallel with the rear end of the main railing E, to thenterminate in a forwardly curved portion F, terminating at the edge ofthe platform A at the other side of the entrance door D. Now by thearrangement described the persons intending to enter the car B or B fromthe station platform A pass between the railings E and F and thenthrough the door D into the rear end of the car, while the passengersleaving the car B pass through the front door C onto the platform A, andowing to the outer railing F these persons are kept separate completelyfrom the persons entering the rear door D of the next car ahead.

in case main line and side line trains stop at the station, it isnecessary to separate the persons for the two lines, and for thispurpose use is made of an intermediate dividing railing G erected on theplatform A between the railings E and F. Thus passengers intending toboard a main line car pass between the railings E and G, while personsintending to board a car for the side lines pass between the railings Fand G, and c011- sequently when the corresponding car for either themain line or the side line stops at the station, the persons for thecorresponding car can readily pass through the door D into the car.

The forward end of the main railing E is provided with a short angularrailing H, extending inward on the platform A, so that the personsleaving the car through the door C are guided straight ahead, so as notto come in contact with the persons along the railings E, F, and Gr, andintending to enter the cars.

By the arrangement described, a simple and inexpensive but veryefficient means is provided for controlling the persons leaving andentering cars at a station, without the slightest discomfort to suchpersons.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A. railway having a station platform and passages thereon, onepassage for each car, and each passage having a longitudinal straightmain railing along the edge of the platform and terminating at one end adistance from the exit door of a car of a train when at a standstill atthe station, the other end of the main railing terminating adjacent tothe one side of the entrance door of the car, and an outer railingparallel to the rear end of the said main railing and having a curvedportion leading to the edge of the platform at the opposite side of thesaid entrance door.

2. A railway having a station platform and passages thereon, one passagefor each car, and each passage having a longitudinal straight mainrailing along the edge of the platform and terminating at one end adistance from the exit door of a car of a train when at a standstill atthe station, the other end of the main railing terminating adjacent toone side of the entrance door of the car, an outer railing parallel tothe rear end of the said main railing and having a curved portion.leading to the edge of the platform at the opposite side of the saidentrance door, and an intermediate railing intermediate the said mainrailing and the said outer railing, the forward end of the saidintermediate railing being approximately opposite the beginning of thecurved portion of the said outer railing.

3. A railway having a station platform and passages thereon, one passagefor each ear, and each passage having a longitudinal straight mainrailing along the edge of the platform and terminating at one end adistance from the exit door of a car of a train when at a standstill atthe station, the other end of the main railing terminating adjacent toone side of the entrance door of the car, an outer railing parallel tothe rear end of the said main railing and having a curved portionleading to the edge of the platform at the opposite side of the saidentrance door, and an angular railing extending at angles from the saidmain railing at the end adjacent to the exit door of the car, thusleaving a free passageway for the passengers leaving the exit door ofthe car, the said passageway extending between the said angular railingand the curved portion of the next outer railing. V y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMANUEL LINHARDT.

Vitnesses Trnso. G. HOSTER, J OHN P. DAVIS..

